Re: Xorg/X11 driver Radeon: radeon vs. radeonhd, a mess!

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 07:24:04 am O. Hartmann wrote:
> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:07:59 +0000
> >
> > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:55:44 +0000
> >>>
> >>> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >>>> Martin wrote:
> >>>>> Am Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:08:54 +0200
> >>>>>
> >>>>> schrieb "O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
> >>>>>> [...]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> if you have problems with the radeonhd driver, you should tell the
> >>>>> guys who work at it. They are really nice and try to help everywhere.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Subscribe there:
> >>>>> http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am only using radeonhd, because it works for me on all cards I
> >>>>> have.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I noticed that window movement may get choppy, when you compile a new
> >>>>> kernel (DRM) and don't recompile a fresh radeonhd driver. This
> >>>>> happens especially when DRI is enabled for your xorg server.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Martin
> >>>>
> >>>> As far as I know, radeonhd from ports doesn't work with DRI enabled on
> >>>> FreeBSD - so it doesn't work on my box either. I guess you're
> >>>> following the recommendations using the development brnach directly
> >>>> from GIT.
> >>>
> >>> Works for me on amd64 8-current.
> >>>
> >>> garyj:ernst:~:-bash:4> grep DRI /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >>> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
> >>> (II) Loading extension DRI2
> >>> (**) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI"
> >>> (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Back Buffer at offset 0x024B4000
> >>> (size = 0x00B13000) (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated DRI Depth Buffer at
> >>> offset 0x02FC7000 (size = 0x00B13000) (II) RADEONHD(0): FB: Allocated
> >>> DRI Textures at offset 0x03ADA000 (size = 0x0C400000) (II) RADEONHD(0):
> >>> [DRI] installation complete
> >>> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
> >>> garyj:ernst:~:-bash:5> ls -d /var/db/pkg/*radeon*
> >>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Apr 14 11:32
> >>> /var/db/pkg/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel-1.2.5.20090412
> >>
> >> Tried radeonhd-devel and failed also!
> >>
> >> When enabling DRI in config file, I see the XDM login box and the box
> >> crashes and freezes immediately. Without DRI radeonhd-devel is horrible
> >> slow when moving windows around - inacceptable. It doesn't matter
> >> whether EXA is enabled or not and the phenomenon ist the same as with
> >> the regular radeonhd-driver from xorg-drivers.
> >>
> >> I'm back with the VESA driver.
> >
> > Hmm.  Are the drm and radeondrm in your kernel up-to-date?  Your posting
> > was chopped by the first replier and I can't remember.
> >
> > Can't think of anything else.
> >
> > I personally don't use xdm/gdm/kdm.  I just use startx.
> >
> > ---
> > Gary Jennejohn
>
> The kernel modules 'radeon' and 'drm' are loaded via /boot/loader.conf
> when booting and they are up to date (I do a buildworld on a regular
> basis these days and it takes ~30 minutes for a quad core box).
>
> Even when not starting X via xdm, the box crashes immediately, freezes
> and is only 'revivable' by cold resetting. This happens with driver
> radeonhd and enabled DRI. Without DRI the radeonhd driver works, but
> moving a window looks like on Windooze when using standard VGA driver
> without acceleration (this is bot with EXA on or off) - scrolling and
> moving objects is really choppy.
>
> 'radeon' doesn't even show up anything, freezes the box as well as
> 'radeonhd', but no matter whether DRI enabled or not.
>
> At home I will test radeonhd-devel with the RV770LE chipset (here I have
> only RV730). The RV770LE seems not to be recognized by 'radeonhd', but
> works fine with 'radeon'. But in both cases, DRI enabled crashes the box.

Could you post your xorg.conf?